The Big Noise: The Free Speech Fight of 1912, Part Eight

Dan Georgakas: “The IWW planned to carry out its program at a time when American capitalism was at its most unbridled stage of development, and when the working class, native and foreign born, was still adjusting to urbanized society.”

Melvyn Dubofsky: “In San Diego the IWW learned the limits of passive resistance, as well as the folly of concentrating its limited power on tangential causes.”

“Codger” Lewis: “Don’t write this out like it’s all past and done. Freedom’s like corn, it’s something that ain’t always gonna be there unless ya keep replanting it.”

SOURCES

Basney, Dana Alan, “The Role of the Spreckels Business Interests in the Development of San Diego,” master’s thesis, SDSU, 1975.